Month: December 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are some who have asked what things were like. In this I cannot account for the experience of others. After all, my world was rather small. A long journey in those days was to MTC or the mission. MTC is Moyo Town Council primary school but most people spoke of it like it was

Reading Time: 13 minutesA friend pointed out this piece by Stephen Holmes in the London Review of Books. Since I first read it I have returned to it several times lately drawn by the discussion on how the Russian state “works”. If you read this and ask why its relevant then maybe its not. Over to you. Fragments

Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter a blistering rant against the West during a trip to Russia reminiscent of the cold war, President Yoweri Museveni delivered an equally virulent diatribe against what he called foreign interests in the Ugandan oil and gas sector. In Russia he is reported to have explored what has long been seen an oil for arms

Reading Time: 3 minutesSeveral weeks ago I accompanied a group of Ugandan radio and TV journalists for a visit to south western Uganda. It consisted of Hoima and Buliisa and a whiz through Queen Elizabeth National Park. Much of Uganda’s oil exploration areas are in the north western part of the country ( often people say oil has

Reading Time: 4 minutesLate Friday afternoon Ugandan Mps voted on a margin of 149-39 to pass the Petroleum Exploration and Production Bill 2012. Once it is signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni it shall constitute the primary law for governing Uganda’s promising oil sector. Two other bills, a midstream and downstream bill remain. The last , on

Reading Time: 6 minutesIn 2004, together with morning show presenter Christine Mawadri, we were ushered into the waiting area of All Saints Church in Nakasero. Located just next to the city residence of the Ugandan President, the Anglican Church is one of the main places of worship on Kampala’s religiously segregated hills. The office of The Most Reverend

Reading Time: 3 minutesUganda is facing sanctions. At least that is what the aid cuts and international condemnations that have accompanied it actually mean. The aid cuts are now substantial. Initially they were a trickle- with the Irish, Danes and Norwegians withdrawing aid. But that has now turned into a flood. Britain, which has also slashed aid to

Reading Time: 3 minutesUganda is facing sanctions. At least that is what the aid cuts and international condemnations that have accompanied it actually mean. The aid cuts are now substantial. Initially they were a trickle- with the Irish, Danes and Norwegians withdrawing aid. But that has now turned into a flood. Britain, which has also slashed aid to